EP2140239A1 - Procede de maintenance d'une matrice de detecteurs du type bolometres - Google Patents
Procede de maintenance d'une matrice de detecteurs du type bolometresInfo
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- Bolometer-type detectors are used to measure infrared, visible or ultraviolet radiant energy, which is produced by a radiative scene. They may be arranged in a matrix, such as a focal plane array commonly referred to as "FPA", for " Focal Plan Array »Such FPA arrays of bolometer type detectors are described in WO 2006/100662 and WO 2006/100663, for example a Wheatstone bridge structure or a differential structure is also commonly used in the detector arrays of FIG. Such a structure is represented in FIG. 1 of the document FR 2 846 666, in particular It makes it possible to reduce the sensitivity of the results of the measurements that are provided by the detectors, with respect to variations of an internal ambient temperature at room temperature. measurement set that includes the matrix
- each bolometer type detector that is sensitive to electromagnetic radiation is an electrically resistive element whose electrical resistance varies when the detector receives a radiation. This variation produces the measurement of the radiation.
- resistive material is vanadium oxide (VO x ) or amorphous silicon
- arrays of bolometer type detectors remain very sensitive to variations in ambient temperature Moreover, since each detector has a location which is different within the matrix, separate detectors receive different radiations. These can modify the characteristics of each detector, as well as its parameters of use in measurement. A variable way between distinct detectors In addition, initial disparities exist between the detectors as soon as the matrix is fabricated, concerning individual properties of the detectors such as their electrical resistances and their sensitivity of response. These initial disparities also contribute to the variations that exist. between the respective responses of the detectors of the same matrix when it receives a uniform radiative energy
- the same radiation may be measured with a different value depending on the location in the detector matrix that is used for its measurement. Because of this, it is known to correct the differences between the bolometer type detectors. of the same matrix by compensating, for each detector, variations of initial offset ("offset" in English) and gain
- each bolometer type detector such as its initial offset and its gain
- characteristics of each bolometer type detector are determined by prior measurements that are performed at predetermined and constant temperatures.
- Two tables (“look up tables”) are deduced, respectively for the gains and the initial offsets of the detectors of the matrix They make it possible to compensate the initial offset and the gain of each detector These are corrections which are applied to the results of detection produced by the detectors after the radiations have been detected
- This remanence can last several days, or even weeks, and can be explained by an alteration of the material of the resistive element of the bolometer which is susceptible to radiation Such an alteration is all the more likely that this sensitive material is generally in a state of unstable equilibrium, as to its actual physicochemical state
- the alteration of the sensitive material of some of the detectors of the matrix produced then offsets results of subsequent measurements These offsets appear as a "ghost" image of overexposure, which is superimposed on images that result from subsequent exposures
- FIG. 4 represents a set of electromagnetic radiation measurements to which such a maintenance method can be applied.
- the assembly comprises a housing 3 which is hermetically sealed and whose interior remains under vacuum.
- a printed circuit 5 is placed on a substrate 4 inside the housing 3
- the circuit 5 comprises electrical resistances constituting the detectors of the bolometer type. These resistances are sensitive to the electromagnetic radiation F and are exposed through a transparent window 6 which closes the housing 3.
- a Peltier element 7 is furthermore placed under the substrate 4, to allow the heating of the radiation-sensitive resistances
- the document US Pat. No. 5,756,999 proposes a measurement cycle which comprises, prior to each exposure of a matrix of bolometer-type detectors for carrying out a radiative measurement, a heating the detectors using the resistive elements thereof which are sensitive to radiation No Peltier element is thus necessary But it is a heating adjustment of the operating point of each detector, which is carried out just before each radiative measurement exposure Such heating reversibly modifies the operating point of each detector before it is exposed to radiation for the measurement.
- Another object of the invention is to propose a method for standardizing the bolometer type detectors of an FPA matrix, which can eliminate disparities present between detectors distinct from the matrix, and in particular disparities which result from their manufacture or a bad aging
- Another object of the invention is to achieve such uniformity without using a heating element of the Peltier element type or furnace associated with the measuring unit
- Another object of the invention is to achieve such uniformization by reaching temperatures above 100 0 C only for the sensing element of the detector, without irreversibly heating or degrading the read and address circuit CMOS which is located under Such a degradation could occur when using a furnace or a Peltier element.
- Another object of the invention is that such a standardization can be achieved by the user of the set of radiative measurement only by a specialized maintenance service
- Another object of the invention is to propose a standardization method applicable to both a part and to all the detectors of an FPA matrix.
- each detector can be heated according to a temperature and / or resistance value that was initially determined for this detector.
- a modification or reset is made to the detector, which can be independent. of the initial state of the other detectors, and adapted according to particular deviations characterized for this detector
- the modification or the reinitialization which is brought to a detector can be adapted to a possible overexposure which this detector has undergone previously
- the threshold temperature and / or the threshold resistance can be set at step 121 as a function of a difference between the temperature and / or the resistance that has been set. measured in step / 1 / for the identified detector, and a reference value of temperature and / or resistance, respectively
- the maintenance method may comprise an additional step of selecting the identified detector.
- This additional step is carried out between the steps IM and 121.
- the steps 121 to IAI are executed for the identified detector only if the temperature and / or the resistance that has been measured in step / 1 / for this detector satisfies a fixed selection condition
- this selection condition can be set so that the identified detector is selected for steps 121 to IAI if it exhibits a remanence of a radiative overexposure or degradation that it would have undergone previously
- step / 3 / of a method according to the invention can be executed so as to modify a material of the identified detector, which is sensitive to electromagnetic radiation during a radiation measurement cycle. That, the detector that is identified can be heated in step / 3 / to a suitable temperature, and for a suitable duration
- step / 3 / can be executed so as to keep the identified detector for a period of at least one minute at a minimum. temperature that is greater than or equal to the threshold temperature, and / or a resistance that is less than or equal to the threshold resistance determined for that identified detector
- the cooling of step / 4 / may have a duration that is greater than at least two minutes, or even greater than ten minutes.
- the heating of step / 3 / can be carried out with at least one resistive element of a detector of the matrix which is different from that which is identified in these two variants of the invention.
- several detectors which are identified can be processed simultaneously according to steps 121 to IAl of the maintenance method of the invention, each being heated during the same execution of step / 3 /
- the total duration of the maintenance process, executed for this plurality of identified detectors, can thus be reduced with respect to several successive executions of the process which would be respectively dedicated to the same detectors, taken one by one
- the step / 1 / of the maintenance process can be performed for several Identified detectors Electrical currents are then supplied at step / 3 / simultaneously to respective resistive elements of a plurality of detectors.
- These electric currents can be determined by using a temperature and / or resistance processing algorithm that has been measured for the detectors identified so as to simultaneously heat them.
- the identified detectors can be heated simultaneously up to a temperature.
- no additional heating element is necessary to implement the invention, compared to the elements resistive sensors of the matrix In particular, no Peltier element nor furnace of heating is necessary
- a maintenance method according to the invention can be automatically executed.
- it can be started automatically, for example at regular time intervals or as a function of the number of radiation measurements that have been carried out. since last previous execution of the maintenance process
- a set of electromagnetic radiation measurements from a radiative scene which comprises
- Means of maintenance may include themselves
- said measurement means for measuring temperatures and / or resistances of respective resistive elements of matrix detectors, said measurement means being adapted to supply measurement signals for identified detectors of the matrix,
- this processing unit being adapted to determine a threshold temperature and / or a threshold resistance for each of the identified detectors
- an electric power supply unit which is connected to the detectors of the array by the addressing system, and a unit for calculating at least one electric current to be supplied by the supply unit to at least one detector of the matrix, so that each identified detector reaches a temperature which is greater than or equal to the threshold temperature, and / or a resistance which is less than or equal to the threshold resistance determined for this identified detector, this computing unit being further adapted to control a progressive reduction of this electric current
- this also proposes a method for maintaining a matrix of i x j detectors of the bolometer type, the method comprising the following steps:
- a step may be provided for measuring the temperature and / or the resistance of all or some of the ix i detectors so as to standardize the temperature and / or or the resistance of the ixj detectors, the value of the threshold temperature and / or the threshold resistance can be set according to the temperature and / or the resistance of all the ix i detectors
- this method may comprise a step of processing the temperatures and / or the measured resistances.
- This processing can be carried out using a data processing algorithm which enables to determine the value of the currents to be supplied to the resistive elements of the IXJ detectors of the matrix so that the temperature and / or the resistance of at least one resistive element of at least a part of all the ix i detectors reaches the same value threshold temperature and / or threshold resistance after formation of a Joule effect from the resistive elements supplied with current
- CMOS addressing In order to select the detectors to supply power to the process according to the invention may comprise a step of selecting the detectors to be supplied with current and / or a current supply step of the selected detectors, which is (are) carried out at from a CMOS addressing
- the uniformization means themselves comprising a unit for processing the measurements of the temperature and / or the resistance of at least one resistive element of at least one of the ix i detectors, read by the measuring means, a unit for controlling the power supply of the IXJ detectors, a unit for calculating the current to be applied by the control unit of the power supply to said at least one of the detectors so that said at least one of the detectors reaches a threshold temperature and / or a threshold resistance after energy dissipation by Joule effect, and a power control calculation unit to be applied by the control unit of the power supply to said at least one of ix detectors for said at least one of the
- FIG. 1 is a simplified schematic representation of a matrix of bolometer type detectors to which the invention can be applied
- FIG. 2 is a schematic representation of a Wheatstone bridge structure of a bolometer type detector to which the invention can be applied,
- FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a radiation measurement set to which the invention can be applied.
- FIG. 4 is a simplified sectional view of the general structure of a focal plane array of bolometer type detectors, as known from the prior art.
- a matrix 1 of the FPA type has i rows and columns of detectors of the bolometer type. It therefore comprises ixj detectors. The measurement and reading of the detection signals which are produced respectively by the detectors are carried out by selecting d first one of the i lines of matrix 1, using a line selector referenced 2
- the detection signals that are produced by the detectors of this line are recorded and transmitted to amplifier inputs referenced A 1 - A j in the figure.
- the amplifiers A 1 - A j are respectively dedicated. to the columns of the matrix 1
- all the detectors of matrix 1 may be included in a Wheatstone bridge structure as shown in FIG.
- R ⁇ a resistance line, which is denoted R ⁇ , many and which is common to all the detectors of a same row of the matrix 1 a resistor R m which is common to all the detectors of the matrix 1, and
- R CO ⁇ a column strength which is denoted R CO ⁇ and which is common to all the detectors of a given column of the matrix 1 and matrix 1 comprises ixj resistors R p, j resistors R CO ⁇ , ⁇ resistors Ri ⁇ many and a single resistor R m
- , gn e, R ⁇ i e Rm * it is possible to design each of these resistors R p, R
- each detector is thermally insulated, and exposed to the electromagnetic radiation F that comes from a scene towards which the radiation measurement assembly is oriented.
- , gne , of column R ⁇ ⁇ and the resistance R m are masked with respect to electromagnetic radiation F originating from the scene
- the resistors R m and R ⁇ ⁇ are maintained in good thermal contact with a substrate of the matrix 1
- the individual characteristics of the detectors may have manufacturing disparities These disparities result, for example, from certain parameters of the manufacturing process which are controlled with limited precision over the extent of the matrix 1. Such disparities may concern, in particular, the electrical resistivities and thermals of the materials that are included in each detector, their thermal variation coefficients, as well as their thermal capacities.
- a maintenance method according to the invention, which is applied to such a matrix of bolometer type detectors, is now described.
- the temperature and / or the resistance of at least one of the active resistances R p is measured Possibly such a measurement can be carried out for several or all the resistors R p of the matrix 1
- the radiation measuring assembly comprises temperature / resistance measuring means which are coupled to the active resistances R p by appropriate addressing means.
- this first step can be performed while a shutter has been placed in front of the matrix 1, to isolate it from radiation outside the measuring assembly
- these measured values are used to determine, for each active resistor R p , a threshold value of temperature / resistance up to which this active resistance must be heated.
- the value that is measured for each active resistor R p can be compared with a reference value.
- a difference between the measured value and the reference value may have been caused by overexposure that has been previously suffered. by the detector concerned, and the amplitude of this difference be related to the intensity of the overexposure
- certain characteristics of the active resistance R p of the detector have been permanently altered, and one of the objectives of the method of maintenance is to return this detector to a reference state
- the threshold value of temperature / resistance for each detector to which the process is applied can be determined from this difference, for example by applying a recorded relation or by using a correspondence table which associates threshold values with distance values obtained
- the maintenance method When the maintenance method is applied for the first time to the matrix 1, it can also eliminate disparities that are present between separate detectors, and which result from the manufacture of the matrix.
- the value that is measured for each active resistor R p can be set as a function of the temperatures and / or the resistances which are respectively measured for the detectors of a part of the matrix 1. For example, the value measured for an active resistance R p can be compared to an average of the measured values for the detectors of the matrix part. This second method can make it possible, in particular, to take into account an aging of the set of detectors which is accepted.
- the detectors to which the process will be applied can be selected from the temperature / resistance values that have been measured for them.
- a single temperature / resistance threshold value can also be set for all the detectors in the matrix, so as to heat them together up to this common threshold value.
- the common threshold value can be set according to the values that have been measured for all the detectors of the matrix, and possibly as a function of the thermodynamic properties of the matrix It can also be fixed according to the values which have been measured for those of the detectors of the matrix which have been degraded previously
- the selected detectors are heated by the Joule effect to the temperature / resistance threshold value that has been set for each of them.
- Such heating can be achieved detector by detector, for example by individually supplying the active resistance R P of each of them with a suitable electric current In this first case, it may be necessary to heat each detector selected one after the other, a because of thermal interactions that can exist between detectors that are close to each other within the matrix 1
- the selected detectors can be heated simultaneously. In this way, a duration of the maintenance process can be reduced.
- electric currents can be fed simultaneously into several active resistors R p of the detector matrix, d. a way which is suitable for heating the selected detectors at the same time up to the temperature / resistance threshold values which have been fixed respectively for each of them. These currents can then be determined by using a temperature treatment algorithm and / or resistances measured respectively for the selected detectors In this way, each detector can be heated more precisely up to the corresponding threshold value of temperature / resistance, taking into account the thermal interactions that can occur between different detectors
- all detectors that are selected to undergo the maintenance process may be heated to the same temperature.
- This common temperature may correspond to a maximum threshold value of temperature / resistance that has been determined for these detectors.
- method of the invention is heated so as to eliminate, if not reduce, differences in physico-chemical characteristics that this detector could present previously
- the term physicochemical state means any characteristic or physical property, structural or chemical resistive material sensitive to radiation
- the threshold temperature at which a detector is heated can be higher than 60 0 C or even greater than 100 ° C. More generally, after degradation of one or more pixels of a set of pixels of a matrix, it is possible to warm up all the pixels thereof to locally erase the effect of overexposure. All the pixels of the matrix are then put in a state of common warming, above or at the threshold temperature of the maintenance process
- the heating can be adjusted to avoid any degradation of the resistive material sensitive to radiation that could cause excessive temperature
- the temperature at which a detector is heated may be less than 200 0 C, or even less than 18O 0 VS
- the selected detectors which have been heated according to the maintenance process above the threshold temperature are cooled in a controlled manner, progressively reducing the currents fed into the resistive elements used for the maintenance. heating of the third step
- Such controlled cooling makes it possible to avoid causing quenching, which could leave the resistive material sensitive to the radiation of one of the detectors in an unstable state.
- the cooling time can be several minutes, for example Example greater than ten minutes The skilled person knows how to adjust the duration of such cooling, depending on the nature of the resistive material sensitive to radiation, and the ability of its environment to dissipate heat
- the fourth stage of the process can be controlled so that at least the heated detectors to which the maintenance process is applied cool simultaneously, in a synchronized and identical manner.
- the cooling is uniform for these detectors so that the temperature of the heated resistive elements is homogeneous
- the power supply of resistive elements of the matrix 1 can be carried out either in continuous mode or by pulses
- each electric current is controlled by an intensity of that
- it can be controlled by means of a cyclic pulse ratio
- the duty cycle if we want to heat up, will have a period of less than or of the same order of magnitude as the thermal time constant of each detector A contrario, if we want to cool progressively, the duty cycle will have a period greater than the thermal time constant of the detectors
- the currents which are fed into the resistive elements of the matrix 1 may be slaved to temperature / resistance measurement results which are repeated during the third and fourth stages.
- Such a servocontrol may help to ensure that the threshold temperatures / resistance-thresholds are not exceeded, and that the cooling is in accordance with a predetermined variation
- An electromagnetic radiation measuring assembly which is adapted for a maintenance method according to the invention can have the logical structure shown in FIG. 4. It comprises the detector matrix 1, which is associated with an addressing system 40. Addressing system 40 makes it possible to send an electric current into the resistive element sensitive to the radiation of any detector of the matrix 1, this detector being identified by its matrix coordinates. The addressing system 40 also makes it possible to transmit a signal. which is produced by any detector of the matrix 1, identified in the same way In particular, this transmitted signal can represent the value of the electrical resistance of the resistive element sensitive to radiation, for the identified detector
- the addressing system 40 is preferably of the CMOS type (for "Complementary Metal Oxide Semi-conductor” in English) as opposed to a CCD type system (for "Charge Coupled Device”).
- CMOS addressing allows to easily select one or more detectors of the matrix 1 II also gives the possibility of controlling the electrical power which is sent in each detector In the radiation detection operating mode, the signals representative of the electrical resistance values of the detectors are transmitted to reading means 50. These can be adapted to produce a thermal image of the radiative scene to which the set of This image can then be transmitted to a recording unit 60
- the additional means of the radiation measurement assembly which are dedicated to the maintenance of the matrix 1, are referenced 100 in FIG. 4. They may comprise a temperature processing unit 10, a current calculation unit 20, a Power supply unit 30 and measuring means According to an advantageous embodiment, the measuring means which are used for the maintenance process can be combined with the reading means 50 which are used for the detection of radiation.
- the processing circuit 10 can receive signals representative of the temperatures that are measured for at least some of the detectors of the array 1. From these measurement signals, it determines the threshold temperatures at which, or beyond which, the detectors must be heated. Optionally identified, the processing unit 10 can select the detectors that need to be heated
- the calculation unit 20 determines, from threshold temperatures determined by the processing unit 10, and for the detectors selected by the latter, the electric currents that must be supplied to some of the detectors of the matrix 1, so that each identified detector for the maintenance process reaches the corresponding threshold temperature
- the two units 10 and 20 can be grouped together in the same entity
- the power supply unit 30 produces electrical currents in accordance with current setpoints which are transmitted by the computing unit 20. These currents are transmitted by the addressing system 40 to the detectors of the matrix 1 identified by their matrix coordinates, themselves produced by the calculation unit 20
- the computing unit 20 may also be adapted to control the power supply unit 30 during the cooling step, so that the power supply unit 30 produces currents which gradually decrease over a predetermined period of time after the temperatures If necessary, this cooling can be controlled by a servo-control loop involving the measuring means 50 and the units 20 and it is understood that the implementation of the invention which has been described in detail hereinafter It can be adapted or modified while retaining at least some of the advantages that have been mentioned. In particular, adaptations of the logical structure of FIG. 4 may be introduced by those skilled in the art, without, however, modifying the maintenance process significantly. Amongst the main advantages of the invention, it is recalled that this makes it possible to eliminate an oven or an element Peltier incorporated ns the detection assembly, and dedicated to the maintenance of bolometer type detectors according to the prior art
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